July 3, 2006

So I’m not going to quote any of this disheartening recap of Sen. Ted Stevens explanation on how the Internet works and why net neutrality is the wrong way to go: Your Own Personal Internet (note: my Firefix has trouble with Wired News Blogs’ Flash banner ad; you may want to try a different browser to read it)

And not liking it much.Â Given the draconian solutions that free market economies are brining to copyright infringement problems, the Chinese solutions will be interesting to see: Piracy hurting China’s own industries - pdf

Kingsoft Corp.’s English-Chinese dictionary program is used on most of China’s 60 million PCs. That’s the good news. The bad news: Kingsoft doesn’t make any money from it, because 90 percent of those copies are pirated.